Morning Journals

Mary Ann Herring, a third grade teacher at the Missouri School for the Deaf in Missouri

I have the same procedure every morning. My students must put their homework on the right hand side of their desks and copy the journal topic from the board. The topic is usually something I taught the previous day and they must write or draw a picture about it. I allow fifteen minutes for this activity, which gives me time to read notes, take roll, etc. I choose several journal entries as examples of exemplary work and share them with the class.

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